Prohibition Quotes

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.

Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us

Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.

There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.

Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.

America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions.

As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit.

Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.